Comments from Tuthmosis and vinman from back in the day (2014), before it was clearer that CH wasn't the same author as the original Roissy:
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-36585-post-743139.html#pid743139
I don't believe in censorship, but I have to agree with Tuth and vinman on the effect on the "manosphere."
Comment by MikeCF on the distinction between the original Roissy and the later CH:
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-36585-post-743145.html#pid743145
vinman said:Tuthmosis said:Dagonet said:Can't Roissy's importance be mentioned as part of a citation from an acceptable source? This does seem pretty crucial to me. You can't deny the Manosphere sprung up around him and Roosh, essentially. If you're detailing the history/formation, this is a lynchpin.
heavy said:Roissy (perhaps the best and most articulate writer out there)
Let's be careful not to overstate the importance of Roissy. I see him as a relatively short-lived and limited contributor to the Manosphere who became obsolete--by choice, it seems--several years ago. While he arguably deserves mention, and made important statements during his two or three years of relevance, he isn't a face on the Mount Rushmore of the Manosphere. The Manosphere certainly didn't "spring up around him."
Furthermore, there are risks to citing him (apart from whatever restrictions Wikipedia places) given his hard turn to bizarre racial and political territory in the last several years (e.g., his preoccupation with something he terms "racial cuckoldry").
Roissy, while once an astute commentator, has hurt the Manosphere as much or more than he's aided it--arming the opposition with some of its only potentially valid criticisms of movement.
I have to go with Tuth on Roissy. I've got skin like concrete. I don't have an immediate butt hurt response to racial issues. I can look at these things dispassionately and come to my own conclusions. But after reading his articles, and then the comments sections I finally said enough of this stuff, and I never looked back.
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-36585-post-743139.html#pid743139
I don't believe in censorship, but I have to agree with Tuth and vinman on the effect on the "manosphere."
Comment by MikeCF on the distinction between the original Roissy and the later CH:
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-36585-post-743145.html#pid743145